This project is a script that downloads weather radar images from the Canada's historical weather radar web page and saves them as GIFs. This is an alternative to their API which no longer includes an overlay of boundaries, city names, etc.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine.
You need to have Node.js installed on your machine. The project uses the following Node.js libraries:
- axios
- jsdom
You can install these packages using npm:
npm installThe script is configured to download images from a specific radar site. You can change the site by modifying the SITE_CODE variable in the script.
The script runs indefinitely, downloading new images every 3 minutes. The images are saved in the ./images directory.
To start the script you just need to run the following in your terminal
node index.js
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License - see the LICENSE file for details